OY! Thanks for refreshing my memory on the write-ups in Bedtime Reading... <blushes> and for sharing your experiences. I believe I'll be doing some reading this weekend.
Myles On June 21, 2002 10:14 pm, Federico Voges wrote: > AFAIK the only REAL hardware RAID for IDE are the 3ware controllers. > > > I have one Soyo MoBo with an HPT370 (RAID 0/1/0+1) and an Intel MoBo > with a Promise FastTrack 100. > > > I'd sugest that you buy another cheap ATA100/133 controller (ie: > CMD649 chipset) and make a RAID5 array with the disks with software > RAID (there are instructions in Bedtime Reading -> RAID). You'll have > a 120GB array. COL 3.1.1 recognizes both controlles as standard IDE > controllers. With RedHat 71./7.2 don't (at least with the Promise > controller). > > > I've reading about the BIOS RAID (HPT/Promise) support for Linux and > it's pretty much useless (ei: it's not fault tolerant. If one disk > fails, your server will crash). > > > Right now, I have to servers running with soft raid (mirroring) > without problems (both running COL 3.1.1, one of them using XFS). -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta linux-sxs.org Mirror: http://dgtech-solutions.com/sxs/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
